This is an analysis of The Dead Drummer by Thomas Hardy.
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They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcbc X deXede X fafafX
- Stanza lengths: 1,6,1,6,1,6,
- Metre: 1 11010101 1000111 0110011 110101 11010101 110101 1 11010101 100101 01000110 110101 11100101 110101 1 11001011 111100 01010111 110101 11110101 110100
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 21
Anaphora
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